Etihad Airways has taken delivery of its 10th and final Airbus A380. Employees from Etihad Airways and Airbus gathered at the European plane-maker’s Hamburg Finkenwerder plant in Germany, where the aircraft was officially handed over to the UAE national airline before commencing its delivery flight to Abu Dhabi. The airline’s award-winning double-decker A380s are the […]
Aer Lingus has welcomed a brand new Airbus A330-300 into its fleet. The new A330 aircraft, named Saint Carthage, registration EI-GAJ, has a total capacity of 313 seats, which is made up of 30 business class seats and 283 economy seats. It is scheduled to make its first commercial voyage on Aer Lingus flight EI109 […]
Air Iceland is changing its name to Air Iceland Connect. There are a number of reasons for the new name, the company claims, including an increased activity in foreign markets, a significant increase in foreign tourists, increased co-operation with Icelandair and to simplify marketing, as the dual name system has meant a significant increase in […]
Europe’s largest aerospace group Airbus has hired a panel of independent monitors to help review the company’s practices in the midst of fraud, bribery and corruption allegations and investigations in France and Britain, according to Reuters. The company’s anti-corruption practice comes after fraud allegations and self-acknowledging of misstatements and omissions in past financial support applications […]
Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) wholly-owned subsidiary, SIA Cargo, is to be re-integrated as a Division within SIA, in a move intended to improve efficiency. The re-integration is expected to be completed in the first half of 2018, when SIA Cargo will become the ‘Cargo Division’ of SIA. SIA Cargo will be business as usual from a […]
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the initiation of new antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether imports of 100- to 150-seat civil aircraft from Canada are being unfairly dumped in the United States and whether Canadian producers are receiving alleged unfair subsidies. The investigations were initiated following a petition […]
Boeing made the first delivery of the new 737 MAX. The airplane, a 737 MAX 8, was handed over to Malindo Air at the Seattle Delivery Center. The Malaysia-based airline will be the first to put the 737 MAX into commercial service. “This airplane will change the face of the single-aisle market,” said Boeing Commercial […]
SIA Group airlines’ passenger load factor improved 2.7 percentage points to 80.8%. Passenger carriage (measured in revenue passenger kilometers) increased 7.5% compared to last year, against 4.0% expansion in capacity (measured in available seat kilometers). Singapore Airlines’ passenger load factor improved 3.7 percentage points to 80.8%. Passenger carriage increased 4.5% compared to last year, against […]
The Government of Canada on May 16, 2017 announced the proposal of the Transportation Modernization Act, which includes establishing new air passenger rights and liberalizing international ownership restrictions for Canadian air carriers, raising foreign ownership limits from 25% to 49%. The new legislation aims “to provide a better experience for travelers and a transparent, fair, […]
Iran Air, Iran’s national flag carrier, took delivery of its first four ATR 72-600s. ATR and Iran Air signed earlier this year a contract for 20 ATR 72-600s and overviewed options for a further 20. Deliveries of the first 20 aircraft will extend until the end of 2018. Following the relief of international sanctions on […]
